Bracket Matching

Misplaced and unmatched brackets are one of the most common syntax
errors encountered when writing code. jEdit has several features to make
brackets easier to deal with.

Positioning the caret immediately after a bracket will highlight
the corresponding closing or opening bracket (assuming it is visible),
and draw a scope indicator in the gutter. If the highlighted bracket is
not visible, the text of the matching line will be shown in the status
bar. If the matching line consists of only whitespace and the bracket
itself, the previous line is shown instead. This
feature is very useful when your code is indented as follows, with
braces on their own lines:

public void someMethod()
{
if(isOK)
{
doSomething();
}
}

Invoking
Edit>Source>Go
to Matching Bracket (shortcut: C+]) or
clicking the scope indicator in the gutter moves the caret to the
matching bracket.

Edit>Source>Select
Code Block (shortcut: C+[) selects all
text between the closest two brackets surrounding the caret.

Holding down Control while clicking the scope
indicator in the gutter or a bracket in the text area will select all
text between the two matching brackets.

Tip

jEdit's bracket matching algorithm only checks syntax tokens
with the same type as the original bracket, so for example unmatched
brackets inside string literals and comments will be skipped when
matching brackets that are part of program syntax.